BBC golf presenter lucky to be alive after being drugged and robbed while on holiday in the Costa Del Sol

GOLF pro Alan Tait, who co-hosts The Golf Show on Radio Scotland, spoke of his nightmare experience after he was left in a "coma-like state" by thugs in a back alleyway while on a break in the popular Spanish destination.

A BBC radio presenter was drugged, battered, robbed and left for dead in a backstreet during a 10-hour ordeal on the Costa del Sol.

Golf pro Alan Tait was left in “a coma-like state” after falling victim to an organised gang in a bar in Puerto Banus on Friday.

Alan, who co-hosts The Golf Show on Radio Scotland, claims they spiked his drink hours after he arrived in Spain for a three-day golf break with pals.

The 45-year-old woke up in a backstreet with cuts and bruises to his head and face. His shirt had been removed and his trousers torn.

Local police told him he had probably been slipped horse tranquilliser ketamine.

Alan had been drinking with seven pals in the exclusive marina town, which lies next to package holiday hotspot Marbella. He warned Scots heading to Spanish resorts to be wary while out drinking.

He said: “I’m a 6ft 2in guy who can look after myself. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.

“The Spanish police said they hear about this sort of thing all the time – but we rarely hear about it.

“I want people to know this sort of thing is going on before they head out.”

Alan Tait is a golf pro at Dalmahoy Golf and Country Club (Image: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Alan – who is director of golf at the Marriott Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club in Edinburgh – headed for drinks with his friends after booking into their hotel in Marbella.

Speaking at home in South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, he said: “The boys last saw me at 10.30pm on Friday. I was talking to some English guys.

“My mates told me that I was there at 10.30pm and gone the next minute. They assumed I’d gone to the toilet or to another bar but wondered why I hadn’t told them.”

Alan assumes he was led away by his abductors. He said: “My last memory is talking to these guys then nothing until waking up in the street at 8.30am.

“I have had a flashback of someone punching the back of my head. I have no idea why – I was obviously so out of it they didn’t need to.

“I woke up disorientated two streets from where we’d been. My shirt was gone and my jeans were ripped.

“I had blood on my face. I’d been in a coma-like state. Stupidly, I’d gone out with 500 euros and £150 in British money, which I should have locked in the room.

“They took it all, my iPhone and a watch my parents gave me for my 40th.”

Puerto Banus: Alan was targeted on night out (Image: Getty Images)

The thieves didn’t steal his passport and left him with one of his two mobile phones.

Terrified Alan managed to convince a taxi driver to take him to the airport, where he spoke to police.

He said: “The staff at the Jet2 desk in Malaga were great, they let me use their phone as my battery had gone.

“I left my girlfriend Katerina a voice message. She said I was hysterical, crying and kept saying, ‘I don’t know what’s happened to me.’

“The staff at the airport said they see this sort of thing all the time in places like Marbella, Benidorm and Majorca.

“Not just with young people – even older people who go out for a meal. It’s awful. I have nieces and nephews in their 20s going on holiday to Spain.

“This happening to them or a young girl doesn’t bear thinking about.”

Alan Tait, who was brutally assaulted and left for dead while holidaying in the Costa Del Sol (Image: Matthew Stringer)

When he didn’t turn up to play golf on Saturday, Alan’s pals scoured the towns along the coast before reporting him as a missing person to the police. He said: “When I finally spoke to them, they were so relieved because they said they had started to fear the worst.”

Now Alan is awaiting the results of blood tests from his doctor.

He said: “I’ve been to get my system checked over to make sure everything’s clean.

“I’ve not been sleeping and have been so low, trance-like. I’ve been going over and over it in my head.

“At least I came home alive. I just want people to know about it and be careful.”

Alan’s ordeal echoes that of Edinburgh dad-of-one Chris Lindsay, 34, who died in hospital in Malaga after an apparent attack on the Costa del Sol in 2011.

He died of multiple organ failure but a BBC Scotland documentary in 2012 heard from a Spanish nurse who claimed Chris said he’d been attacked when he was admitted to hospital.